For quite some time, there has been a talk doing rounds in the political circles that senior Telangana Rashtra Samithi leader and MLA from Siddipet T Harish Rao might be forced to contest the coming Lok Sabha elections.
Jana Sena Party headed by power star Pawan Kalyan did not contest the assembly elections in Telangana held in December last, though he had announced well in advance that his party would definitely take part in the elections.
Senior Congress leaders like V. Hanumantha Rao, Mallu Ravi and Patel Ramesh Reddy were among the 25 aspirants who applied for Lok Sabha nominations on Sunday.
Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao announced here on Saturday that a comprehensive master plan would be prepared for converting Hyderabad into a truly global city.
It is more or less certain that Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is not going to take his nephew and Siddipet MLA T Harish Rao into his cabinet, which is going to be expanded shortly, if one were to go by the talk going on in TRS circles.
Ever since the Telangana Rashtra Samithi came back to power for a second successive term in December assembly elections, some of the Congress MLAs have been eagerly waiting for an opportunity to defect into the ruling party.
If Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has his way, former deputy chief minister and senior TRS leader Kadiyam Srihari is going to be appointed as the next chairman of Telangana state legislative council.
Though there is no official confirmation from the Telangana government as such, there are enough indication that Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will expand his cabinet at last on February 10.
Lok Sabha Member of Parliament from Hyderabad and All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen president Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday mocked the 'Bharat Ratna' and said that India's highest civilian honour is a club of Brahmins and of those who belong to upper castes.
It is an open secret that Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has pulled his party out of the Bharatiya Janata Part-led National Democratic Alliance in April last, as he realised that the TDP would be on the losing side if he continued to sail with the NDA.
Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee working president A Revanth Reddy, who gave too much build up before the recent Telangana assembly elections and even claimed to be a chief ministerial candidate, had lost his face completely after the elections results on December 11.
The Andhra Pradesh Police on Wednesday transferred the murder case of Florida-based NRI businessman Chigurupati Jayaram to Telangana.
Telugu television actress Naga Jhansi committed suicide at her house in Hyderabad on Wednesday, police said.
Strange are the ways of Telangana Congress party. Having faced a huge debacle in the recent assembly elections, it wants to prove its identity at least in the Lok Sabha elections by winning at least half a dozen MP seats out of 17 in the state.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, who has been talking about the formation of a federal front of regional parties at the national level, is unusually silent over the ongoing clash between the Narendra Modi government at the Centre and the West Bengal government headed by Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee over the CBI raids.